Some people feel like this has nothing to do with us, you know, reparations, why?

Because this is something that you know other generations did we had nothing to do with

slavery but I think what they failed to realize is that let's say in our case the

reparations that he did get, even though it was meager compared to the value of how do you value a person, your own family.

But he was able to uplift his own family, but then that became future generations, who were educated, became professionals, doctors, lawyers, people who were able to help respectively uplift their own communities.

So that's reverberated now to us 200 years later.

So when people say that, you know, that's in the past, it's not really in the past because there are people who didn't benefit like we did.

The vast majority, basically, it would say of black people did not have any benefit whatsoever.

So imagine if they had that little step up at that time, it would have changed the course of lives of millions of people.

The Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee of the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

will come to order.

Thank the office.

1 June 19th, 2019,

2019, Congress held a hearing.

This hearing had been a long time coming,

a step in securing for millions of black Americans what Gabriel Coakley had managed to win

for his family a century and a half earlier.

But the greatest credit for HR 40 belongs to two individuals. First and foremost, Mr. John Kindiers.

In 1989, a year after the successful passage of the Civil Liberties Act, which granted

Japanese Americans reparations, Michigan

Representative John Conyers introduced a bill that he hoped would follow a similar process

to study reparations for black Americans.

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